Teirney Medeiros

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal who has not been fed or watered. It is you!! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran